The Senate – Egypt's consultative upper house – provisionally approved Sunday a new government-drafted labour law aiming to regulate the relationship between employers and workers in a market economy.
Abdel-Khaleq Ayad, chairman of the Senate's Energy, Environment and Labour Force Committee, said the draft law took four months of discussions. "The Committee held a series of hearing sessions over this period in order to listen to the viewpoints of labour experts on the draft law in a neutral and objective way," said Ayad.
Ayad added that "in our four-month discussions we focused on how the draft law will serve production and workers and how it will stimulate businessmen and investors to set up new projects that can generate new job opportunities for young people."
According to Ayad, the new labour law was drafted in a way that strikes a balance between the interests of employers on the one side and the interests of workers on the other. "I can say that this draft law does not serve the interests of one party at the expense of another, but it aims to serve all parties in a balanced way and represents a progressive step for the country in general," said Ayad.
He insisted that the draft labour law does not include any articles that can lead to "automatic dismissal of workers". "The new labour law simply aims to regulate the relationship between employers and workers and in this respect, it includes rules that can be used to settle differences between the two parties," said...
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